In campaign ads this fall, Dems will use this to point out that they care more about the weather than Republicans. “Republicans want you to have more tornados and hurricanes.” Only Dems can change the weather.

Shindell is at odds with his erstwhile colleagues,including Hal Doiron.

Doiron was one of 40 ex NASA employees – including seven astronauts – who wrote in April 2012 to NASA administrator Charles Bolden protesting about the organization’s promotion of climate change alarmism, notably via its resident environmental activist James Hansen.

During his stint as head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hansen tirelessly promoted Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. He retired last year to spend more time on environmental campaigning and has twice been arrested with former mermaid impersonator Darryl Hannah for his part in protests against surface coal mining and the Keystone XL pipe line. While still head of NASA GISS he once described trains carrying coal as “death trains” “no less gruesome than if they were carrying boxcars headed to crematoria and loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.” Many NASA employees and former employees found his views an embarrassment.

Doiron and his team now hope to set the record straight in a report called Bounding GHG Climate Sensitivity For Use In Regulatory Decisions.

Using calculations by George Stegemeier of the National Academy of Engineering, they estimated the total quantity of recoverable oil, gas and coal on the planet. They then used 163 years of real world temperature data to calculate Transient Climate Sensitivity (ie how much the world will warm as a result of the burning of all the carbon dioxide in the fossil fuel). The figure they came up with 1.2 degrees C which is considerably lower than the wilder claims of the IPCC, whose reports have suggested it could be as high as 4 degrees C or more.

There was one purpose, and one purpose only for this charade: politics. They’re trying to take American people’s attention off the sh1t economy and off of 0bamacare disaster. Nothing to do with “climate.”

It’s more a talkathon than a filibuster – as there’s no legislation they’re trying to suppress. They’re just talking to the air – the Senate is just about empty overnight. But it’ll get into the Congressional Record, and they can impress their constituents with their “caring”.

And they’ll get big campaign contributions from Tom Steyer, who promised to support any Democrats who held the warming party line.